Another Color Wheel
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work on a problem involving the color wheel. The requirements for that problem lent themselves to a solution involving bitwise operations...
2011-11-03
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Blog Posts
DDL Auditing presentation – feedback
Well, I finally got the feedback from my SQL Audit presentation last month, and I’m very pleased. Ok, more than...
2011-11-03
782 reads
Dimensional Modeling Financial Data in SSAS pt2
Unary Operator and Aggregating over time
In my last post I discussed how to arrange all of the GLs into a...
2011-11-03
3,269 reads
Find Recently Run Queries
If you have ever closed a query window by accident only to wish you could get back your work an...
2011-11-03
3,994 reads
Recording SQL Server Configuration Settings.
(I’m ‘standing in for Brad, who is busy ..er.. somewhere, and I found this unpublished piece by Brad and I....
2011-11-03
1,419 reads
SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Edition
Well this was quite the little surprise this morning. Microsoft announced a new edition to the SQL Server lineup for...
2011-11-03
2,718 reads
Correction of my unfair and incorrect words against SQLWorkshops.com
On October 18, 2011 I have made unfair and incorrect words on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,
and Xing against the owners of...
2011-11-02
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Latest post from Bill Gates featuring Hans Rosling’s animated bubble graphs
I just caught a tweet from Bill Gates with yet another fascinating presentation from Hans Rosling on the Gates Notes...
2011-11-02
785 reads
Meetings as Battles
I was in a meeting recently that had some quiet tension to it, at least two different sides represented and...
2011-11-02
531 reads
My PASS Summit 2011 Experience
The 2011 PASS Summit is in the rear view mirror (has it really been almost three weeks now?)...and as always...
2011-11-02
938 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #199: Roundup
A good week ago I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday blog party. I invited...
No Shortcuts for the SQLCMD Batch Terminator: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was messing around with SQLCMD and I realized something I hadn’t known. I’ve...
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
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Increment a number in a SQL Query based on a value
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Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers